Re: Devanagari handwriting?

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 14:05:39 -0500, Pascal A. Kramm <pkramm@...> wrote:

>On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 18:10:19 -0500, J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...>
wrote:
>
>>Not all dialects of a language need to be mutually intellegible. Most
>>linguists consider the Bavarians to speak German, though I don't doubt
>>that some linguists may consider the Bavarians not to belong to the German
>>speaking world.
>
>What makes out a dialect is that it only varies slightly from the main
>language, so it can be understood without much problems by all speakers of
>the main language.
>Once a dialect has changed so tremendously from the main language that it
>is totally unintelligible to speakers of the main language (as is the case
>with Bavarian), it has become a proper language of its own.
There may be some linguists who share that point of view, but most will
consider other factors as well, such as standard language, literature,
media, etc.

gry@s:
j. 'mach' wust

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